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...conditions as he has observed them. His has been a story of destitute thousands forming shamefaced breadlines; of stagnant waters, breeding places of countless mosquitoes; of a lost cotton crop and a lost corn crop; of the collapse of the credit system hastily thrown together to relieve the stricken area. Mr. Speers writes as no sensation monger and the Times, though Democratic in policy, has never been an extremist organ, has even opposed the calling of a special flood session of Congress. Yet Mr. Speers has pictured widespread desolation made even more gloomy by the thought of what may happen...
...planting a fourth. Stagnant waters have formed tremendous swamps, mosquito-infested. There is fear of a large scale outbreak of malaria. Mr. Hoover has estimated that Red Cross funds will last till Nov. 1, with $3,000,000 left over. There seemed little prospect that the flood area, as a whole, would be in any way self-supporting by November or for some time after...
...South Australia, with a population of 543,122, ranks fourth most populous among the eight states and territories which comprise the Continent: New South Wales, Victoria, Queensland, South Australia, Western Australia, Tasmania, North Territory and Federal Capital Territory. Although the area of Australia (2,974,581 sq. mi.) is about two-thirds that of the U. S., the total population (5,929,288) is only slightly more than that of New York City (5,873,366). * Regions North of Australia are: British Siberia; and the Union of Socialist Soviet Islands ; Japan ; Korea ; China ; Manchuria ; Siberia; and the Union of Socialist...
...largest dining-room on any steamer, a vast salon, 1,000 square metres in area,* covered with a carpet which cost 1,000,000 francs, ventilated by 112 portholes...
...Ostia" cried posters on the walls of Mussolinized Rome. Patriotic Italians obeyed gladly, went down to Ostia at the mouth of the river Tiber. The thousands who did not have official tickets of admission to the area of goodview were urged by bayonets to herd themselves a mile up the beach. Punctually at the appointed hour, a speck accompanied by lesser specks appeared in the air. . . . Commander Francesco de Pinedo had completed his 26,000-mile, four-continent (Europe, Africa, South America, North America) flight in the Santa Maria...